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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
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Jon Meacham
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 20
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Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.
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I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.
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